tagged ‘Pioneer Plaque’

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Manifest Destination

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As you read this, a metallic mass just a smidge smaller than my Subaru Forester hurdles through outer space at 11.947 kilometers per second. That’s 7.426 miles per second—or, to use a different set of imperial units, 12.313 Oregon Trails per hour.  Cost-effective, rugged, utile: Pioneer 10, the object in question, would certainly pass with […]